{"id":1811,"date":"2012-04-25T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2012-04-25T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:04:50","slug":"military-shift-campaign-donations-from-ron-paul-to-obama-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/military-shift-campaign-donations-from-ron-paul-to-obama-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Shift Campaign Donations From Ron Paul To Obama In March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reported in February that anti-war GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) was at that time, \u201cby far,\u201d getting the most in campaign contributions from members of the United States military. According to a review of Federal Election Commission data, Paul received nearly $250,000 in donations from servicemembers, President Obama, $130,000 and GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney just $23,000.<\/p>\n<p>But now that Paul\u2019s campaign is all but over and presumably, Romney will be the Republican nominee, the military\u2019s donation trend is beginning to shift: away from Paul and toward Obama, the Open Secrets blog reports:<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/04\/25\/470851\/military-donations-obama-paul-march\/\">Military Shift Campaign Donations From Ron Paul To Obama In March | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reported in February that anti-war GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) was at that time, \u201cby far,\u201d getting the most in campaign contributions from members of the United States military. According to a review of Federal Election Commission data, Paul received nearly $250,000 in donations from servicemembers, President Obama, $130,000 and GOP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[90,1138,65,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}